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Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

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Re: Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

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Post by operatingthetan »

kodah wrote: post #222
caminante wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ambiguous at best. Tabloidy/political/all the same.

Frankly, I read this article this morning when it broke on the NYP. The NYP stays in my feed but when I read their stuff I almost always cross it with other sources. There are none though because all that exists of this story right now is the docket. Miller, Google, and Olahan aren't talking. How victims are portrayed in the media matters a great deal. Media can skewer a case by either poking holes in it or by flatly…

Trying to reason with someone who flat out rejects nuance might be futile.

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Post by eh9 »

scarmig wrote: post #131
eh9 wrote: post #97

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Of course, statistically speaking, it was probably only 80-90% white male.

Probably like 75% male. But at most 25% white male.

Nope. It’s a lot whiter than u think https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech

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Post by ranting-moth »

grapehut wrote: post #72

These stories leave a bad taste in my mouth. It hasn't yet gone to court, so the guys allegations could be really be anything from the God's honest truth all the way to a complete fabrication. Yet there is a huge amount of irreparable damage by public stories like this. I was once personally on the receiving end of a complete false sexual harassment allegation from a coworker almost at random (someone I had almost no…

False allegations should carry the same penalty as the crime being alleged.

Re: Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

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Post by csomar »

lambdasquirrel wrote: post #188
csomar wrote: post #168

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> STEM is 100% historically discriminatory to women Is this a Western/US thing? Woman STEM graduates outnumber man in a number of countries. Mine and Iran for example but most Muslim countries have strong woman numbers. I don't think STEM in the west is discriminatory to women, out of the blue. It can't be more discriminatory than Iran? Unless, there is data and research that suggests otherwise.

Not just Muslim countries but Asia’s numbers are more even too. Not sure what happened but the West got leapfrogged by a lot of the rest of the world in this regard. We like to think we’re the shining light of progressivism but the reality may be more complicated than that.

I can only speak of my country (still a Muslim country though more liberal than your average). The reason woman study super-hard is that it gives them freedom. It's not accepted, socially, for a woman, for example, to take a trip to another city and stay alone in a hotel. However, it's totally okay if she is a medical doctor or an engineer in a mission. The same for travelling outside of the country.

These might be strong incentives for woman to pursue STEM degrees. These same incentives don't exist for Western woman since they already have their freedoms unquestioned. Also, a little note: This is just a speculation from me (less than an opinion) might be completely wrong.

Re: Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

lelanthran wrote: post #142
siva7 wrote: post #7

Seems like no one believes him. Let's be honest: How often have you heard news about a woman molesting a man vs. a man molesting a woman?

> Let's be honest: How often have you heard news about a woman molesting a man vs. a man molesting a woman? How often do you expect to hear about it when all the complaints are officially dismissed and the victim is told to shut up?

Every day ten of thousands of people are being sexually harassed, and a thousand + are being sexually assaulted. We don't hear about the vast majority of these cases, even if they are prosecuted, regardless of the sexes of perpetrator and victim.

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

wrycoder wrote: post #75
0xcafefood wrote: post #38

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In past years, I've seen at least as many news stories about female teachers sleeping with or otherwise abusing their students as I have about a man doing the same. It's possible that's just a "man bites dog" effect, but I suspect stories like that would get aired when either a man or a woman does it.

There aren’t many male teachers left.

So you're saying that male teachers disproportionately abuse compared to female teachers?
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